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woob Social Networking

We have added the ability to connect your building’s social networks to your building’s web page.  Currently Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ can be embedded into the homepage section of your building’s webpage. 1. Facebook: Simply copy the URL of your building’s Facebook … Continue reading

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Google Multiple Sign-In

Google Apps was updated a while back to allow Google Apps for Domains email addresses to be used as a standard gmail email address for many of Googles services. The change makes Google Apps for Domains even more useful, however, … Continue reading

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Viewport and Google Maps Mobile

Examples for the Google Maps API disables user-scaling. <meta name=’viewport’ content=’initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no’ /> However, removal of this line (enabling scaling) works on the Android browsers I have tested.

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Android on Verizon

Be aware that your Google Apps for Domain accounts can be synchronized with your Android device.  No forwarding, pop, or IMAP silliness is needed. It’s too bad the folks that work at Verizon don’t know this.  As entertaining as the … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer, Padding, and Float

padding: 15em; That one little line in a .css file lead to an hour of time down the drain. Was troubleshooting a webpage whose float div was not showing properly on Internet Explorer 7 & 8. Turns out the div … Continue reading

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GWT FocusPanel on Chrome

I was attempting to use a FocusPanel to capture a change in a StreetviewPanoramaWidget. StreetviewYawChangedEvent et. al. was firing when a new panorama was being loaded, so I figured I’d hack it to determine when the user ‘touched’ the Street … Continue reading

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Google Street View Car Pit Stop

The Google Street View Car gets fuel. Lat: 37.503873 Lon: -77.657316 Pitch: 10.83 Yaw: 61.19 Zoom: 0.0

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Google Docs Form Example

Here are the steps needed to create a Form on Google Spreadsheet. 1. Log into google docs and create a new spreadsheet. 2. Select ‘Form’ from the menu bar and then click ‘Create a Form’ 3. You will be presented … Continue reading

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Podcast Example

This post is an example of how a podcast can be embedded into an existing blog. The folks at Blubrry have a wonderful plugin for WordPress that allows easy to use (and iTune friendly) podcasting from your own blog.  Files can be … Continue reading

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Escape from PDF

My second least favorite file format on the internet is .pdf.  Just so happens that it is from the same creator of my least favorite file format, .swf, Adobe. I avoid the two file formats as much as I can, … Continue reading

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